A 32-member Indian athletics team comprising 17 men and 15 women athletes is all set to compete in the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham from July 28 to August 8, 2022. The larger Indian athletics contingent compared to 26 athletes in the previous edition of the Games at Gold Coast will start its campaign with the men’s Marathon on Saturday.
Adille J Sumariwalla, AFI President said, “The Indian team is full of young athletes and it is a great chance for these youngsters to shine at the CWG. We have a good team of 32 athletes through our quota for the Games was 36. Injury concerns forced Olympic Champion and 2018 CWG gold medallist in javelin throw Neeraj Chopra and shot putter Tajinder Singh Toor to pull out of the Games. In the 4x400m men’s relay team, we have replaced Rajesh Ramesh who has a minor injury and could not perform as expected at the World Championships with Mohammed Anas,”
“Two female athletes are dropped from the team after they failed a dope test. We have zero tolerance for doping. I am also pleased that the entry of high jumper Tejaswin Shankar has been accepted by the Games organising committee. Overall, we are expecting a good performance from these youngsters and we want them to give their best and win more medals for India,” he said.
India won three medals (1 gold, 1 bronze and 1 silver) in the last edition of the Games at Gold Coast, Australia in 2018.
Indian athletics team-
| Men | Women |
| 3000 SC
1 AVINASH SABLE 5000 M xxx AVINASH SABLE
MARATHON 2 NITENDER SINGH RAWAT
JAVELIN THROW 3 MANU DP 4 ROHIT YADAV
LONG JUMP 5 SREESHANKAR 6 MUHMMED ANEES
TRIPLE JUMP 7 ABDULLA ABOOBACKER 8 PRAVEEN CHITRAVEL 9 ELDHOSE PAUL
HIGH JUMP 10 TEJASWIN SHANKAR
10 KM WALK 11 SANDEEP KUMAR 12 AMIT
4X400 M RELAY 13 AMOJ JACOB 14 NOAH NIRMAL TOM 15 MUHAMMED ANAS 16 MUHAMMED AJMAL 17 NAGANATHAN PANDI
|
100 M
1 DUTEE CHAND
200 M 2 HIMA DAS
100 M H 3 JYOTHI YARRAJI
SHOT PUT 4 MANPREET KAUR
DISCUS THROW 5 NAVJEET KAUR DHILLON 6 SEEMA PUNIA
JAVELIN THROW 7 ANNU RANI 8 SHILPA RANI
HAMMER THROW 9 MANJU BALA DEVI 10 SARITA R SINGH
LONG JUMP 11 ANCY SOJAN
10 KM WALK 12 BHAWNA JAT 13 PRIYANKA GOSWAMI
4X100 M RELAY xxx HIMA DAS xxx DUTEE CHAND 14 SRABANI NANDA 15 SIMI NS |
